[Wylug-help] SuSE 8.1

[Paul Grenyer]

Hi

> You can download a Suse "Live Evaluation" CD, but you can't install from
it.

ic.

>
> OTOH, Amazon had SuSE 8.2 Pro for 20 quid last time I looked,

I'll check that out. £20 isn't too bad.

>  and it's
> also been on the front of a magazine (Linux Format, IIRC) fairly recently.

I subscribe to Linux Format and it was the Suse "Live Evaluation" CD.

>  I will recommend Apt4rpm with Suse; I've found it to be a great
> improvement, although as Phil pointed out the Online Update is much
> better from 8.2 on. Apt is especially good for stuff like MPlayer that
> doesn't have official SuSE packages. Theoretically, you should be able
> to do an apt-get dist-upgrade from 8.1 to 9.0 - but I haven't tried that.

So Apt4rpm  is an auto-update tool?

Regards
Paul




Regards
Paul

Paul Grenyer
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